"I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime."

“God was in the details.”

“Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.”

“Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.”

“In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do”

“Create a dream and give it everything you have, you could be surprised just how much you are capable of achieving.”

Source : Sara Henderson (2013). “From Strength to Strength”, p.9, Pan

“The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.”

Source : James Joll (1960). “Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays”

“I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

“Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.”